Bengal post poll: TMC may win 163 seats; Left-Cong 126; BJP 1
Kolkata,
May
16:
The
Trinamool
Congress
(TMC)
led
by
Mamata
Banerjee
is
set
to
retain
power
in
West
Bengal
in
this
year's
Assembly
election,
said
a
post-poll
survey
conducted
by
ABP
Ananda
and
AC
Nielsen
between
April
5
and
May
7.
[What's
difference
between
exit
poll
and
post-poll
survey]
Assembly
Polls
2016
Coverage
What
ABP
Ananda-Nielsen
first
pre-poll
survey
said
What
ABP-Ananda-Nielsen
second
pre-poll
survey
said
According to the survey, the ruling TMC may get 163 of the 294 Assembly seats, 15 more than the magic figure of 148. The Left-Congress alliance, on the other hand, may get 126 seats while the BJP may get one seat. Others may get four seats.
In terms of vote-share, the TMC may get 44 per cent while the Left may end up with 42 per cent, just two points less. The BJP may get seven per cent, 10 points less than its impressive tally of 17 per cent garnered in the 2014 Lok Sabha election. Others may also end up with seven per cent votes.
25 seats can go anybody's way
The survey, however, added that in 25 seats, the difference between the TMC and the Left-Congress alliance may be less than five per cent, which means the results could be different if those seats go to the Opposition's way.
In the 2011 Assembly election, the TMC-Congress alliance got 227 seats while the Left got 60-odd seats. The BJP opened their account later after winning a by-election. In 2012, the Congress pulled out of the government though the TMC had enough numbers to maintain the majority.
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